The ATLAS and CMS Experiments at CERN have just released a new measurement of the mass of the top quark. The new result combines 15 previous measurements to give the most precise determination of the top-quark mass to date. Among the known…
Read MOREIn a paper published earlier this autumn in Nature, the ALPHA collaboration at CERN’s Antimatter Factory shows that, within the precision of their experiment, atoms of antihydrogen – a positron orbiting an antiproton – fall to Earth in the…
Read MOREThe LHC schedule for 2023 has been revised following the emergence of a leak in mid-July. The decision was to stop the regular proton running this year and focus on the heavy ion physics that was already scheduled for the year-end. This was…
Read MOREEarlier this summer, the 2023 Young Experimental Physicist Prize of the High Energy and Particle Physics Division of the European Physical Society – for early career experimental physicists – was awarded to CERN staff physicist Valentina Cairo for…
Read MOREIn the middle of the LHC ring, at the CERN Prevessin site, lies an experimental facility dedicated to particles that are but missing momentum to the four major LHC experiments. The Neutrino Platform, built as an extension of the SPS test beam area,…
Read MOREThe first edition of the RD51 Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGD) School was held at CERN from November 27th to December 1st, 2023. The school focused on state-of-the-art MPGD technologies with the goals of introducing newcomers to the field of…
Read MOREDIRAC and Rucio are two software projects used for scientific computing. Both projects are led by CERN, and the EP department is one of the major contributors to both. DIRAC is used by CERN experiments such as LHCb, CLIC, FCC, NA62, and non-…
Read MOREWhen astronauts look at the Earth from orbit, they are often awed by its beauty and isolation. They speak of the overview effect; a cognitive shift to a new larger perspective that gives context and meaning to their lives. For physicists, a similar…
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